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"We can't play one-on-one, isolation basketball. That ball has to swing; it has to hop. I told our guys, 'If we put up any kind of a defensive stand and if our assist total is anywhere in the middle 20s, our chances of winning those games are going to be very good.'"---By suggesting a -46%- FG average as a goal for this team it sure seems to methe above quote must be employed in order for that number to achieve.While a Mayo, and Butler will provide their own opportunities to score, they,along with their fellow mates~ will need an assist to achieve maximum potentialindividually, and thus, as a team.

Should that 46 percent, be accompanied by say, 23-26 dimes a night,...good things should appear at games end? *****

Here's some negative stats in the push for a new arena, grain of salt, please, it's The Rapport:

Preseason Power Rankings for the NBA's Small-Market TeamsBY ADAM FROMAL (NATIONAL NBA FEATURED COLUMNIST) ON OCTOBER 24, 2013

10. Milwaukee Bucks, 90 Market Score

Wins Rank: No. 9

Attendance Rank: No. 7

Franchise Value Rank: No. 10

Franchise Profit Rank: No. 10

Franchise Growth Rank: No. 10

Future Flexibility Rank: No. 8

The poor Milwaukee Bucks finish near the bottom in just about every category.

While there's hope of internal improvement from Brandon Knight, Giannis Antetokounmpo, John Henson and Larry Sanders, there isn't really a chance that general manager John Hammond pulls of a coup d'etat in free agency. The money is limited, and Milwaukee has never held much appeal for free agents.

The team also isn't set up to compete right now, even though it seems like low-tier mediocrity is the goal each and every season. A playoff spot would be a pipe dream for this current squad, especially as bad as it's looked throughout the preseason.

Milwaukee isn't drawing fans, and the franchise itself is the least valuable in the NBA. It's not profitable, it's not growing and it's worth only $312 million.

Monta Ellis has gone on the record as saying he has been passing too much this preseason, which may just be the most Monta Ellis thing ever said by Monta Ellis.

Ellis is fourth in the NBA with 43 assists, but his turnover numbers have been creeping up in recent games, including an unsightly six yesterday against Atlanta. And, according to ESPNDallas.com, Ellis believes that overpassing could be to blame:

"There's a lot of shots that's been there and I've been making the late pass...I think the majority of my turnovers come because instead of me taking that shot or making the layup, I try to pass. I've got to get out of that."

And here's how you keep your assist total 'uP there'...........from Deadspin:

"Which is how, one night in Vancouver, Nick Van Exel nearly tied Magic Johnson's team record for assists in a game.

Partly because I disagreed with the blatant stat manipulation (that I did) and partly because I'm a Laker fan, I gave Nick Van Exel like 23 assists one game. If he was vaguely close to a guy making a shot, I found a way to give him an assist. Afterwards, I fully expected someone to talk to me about it. Indeed they did. A senior management guy - "great job Alex, that'll get this game on Sportscenter tomorrow morning!" We (VAN) lost badly, of course."